These homes of Brest consist of 71 main residences, 1 second or occasional homes and 5 vacant homes. I like Brest! Administrative Information of Brest Region :. Bretagne Nearby towns of Brest Here are maps and information of the close municipalities near Brest. Bohars 29 at 4. Guilers 29 at 6. Gouesnou 29 at 7. Le Relecq-Kerhuon 29 at 7. Guipavas 29 at 8. Roscanvel 29 at 9.

Plougastel-Daoulas 29 at 9. Milizac 29 at Saint-Renan 29 at Bourg-Blanc 29 at Kersaint-Plabennec 29 at Guipronvel 29 at Saint-Divy 29 at Plabennec 29 at Loperhet 29 at La Forest-Landerneau 29 at Geography of Brest Area :. Latitude: X: 1 hectometers Y: 68 hectometers. Population and housings of Brest Inhabitants in :. Population Brest. Housing Brest. Hotel Brest. Book now! Best Price Guaranteed, no booking fees, pay at the hotel with our partner Booking.

Find all hotels of Brest : Hotel Brest. Hotel : Hotel Bellevue Located in Brest city centre, the Bellevue is a 5-minute walk from the train station. Apartment : Appart Brest City 1 vue mer Just 1. Hotel : Little Lodge Hotel Located in the centre of Brest, the friendly Little Lodge Hotel is close to the train station, the congress centre and the hospitals.

Map of Brest. Map of Brest : At right you can find the localization of Brest on the map of France. This colourful spectacle at the roadstead attracts thousands of visitors. Plant-lovers should head to the National Botanical Conservatory, one of the biggest in Europe, which works to preserve endangered species. It is one of Europe's biggest aquariums, and even has a seal clinic! City Brest, whose life revolves around the sea, does nonetheless a green city!

Brest it is also a city of history, and its castle, which houses the National Museum of the Navy reminds the visitors. Guided tours offered by the Tourist Office allow to enter neighborhoods that have made the reputation of Brest, including the district of Recouvrance, to discover the origin of the names of two major roads in the city center, the street of Siam and rue Jean Jaures!

Brest offer to see, but that's not all, for a time of sharing, the Moulin Blanc marina itself as a true place of excitement where the glasses clink and which echo the voices among the singing seagulls. Virtual visit. Add to favourites Remove from favourites. Add to itinerary Remove from itinerary. Have your say Add to itinerary Open map How to get there.

Additional information Brest. Places of interest. Tourist Office of Brest. Beach of the Moulin Blanc. Beach Sainte Anne du Portzic. Botanical Garden of the Stang-Alar. Marina of the Moulin Blanc. Museum national de la Marine. Museum of Fine Art of Brest. Enjoy your stay! Both stations are located in the city center and are easily accessible. Published: 13 June , The sea… right in front of you To the very west of Brittany, Brest immediately faces the sea.

Not to miss The port of Brest , immerse yourself in the streets of the city that grew around its arsenal, built in by Cardinal Richelieu, on the banks of the river Penfeld. Remarkable natural sites Around Brest, you can't help but enjoy the nature around you. Festivals and events Every summer, on Thursdays come to the port on the banks of Brest, where you can enjoy free concerts. Gastronomy The riches of the sea have enough to satisfy even the most discerning of palates.

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Goel Ganga Developments is one of the most trusted real estate developers in Pune. It is also a multi-faceted business conglomerate with business ventures across myriad sectors like education, logistics and energy. We are known for our time-tested commitment to details, innovation, reliability and value. Project Location: Baner. Baner , Sus Road. Ganga Acropolis. Luxurious 2, 3, 3. RERA no. Real Estate in Baner You would be surprised to know that Baner was once known for its agricultural development.

Why investing in Baner Pune is a good idea? Serenity One of the many factors that attracted people to Baner was its lush green setting thanks to the presence of the Baner Hills. Employment Baner is also an important employment hub. Lifestyle You will find a growing number of popular restaurants, cafes and pubs. One of the major advantages that western Pune suburbs have, is its proximity to Mumbai.

Baner-Bypass Highway is on the way to Mumbai-Bangalore Highway and has a bundle of residential development. It is bordered by Pashan in south, Balewadi to the west, Aundh to the north and Pune University to the east. This locality comes under the Pune Municipal Corporation limits.

It is one of the periphery area of west Pune that has grown to be a promising real estate hotspot. It is located strategically in close proximity to the Pune-Mumbai expressway. Some medium-sized businesses and IT parks, are also located in Aundh and Kothrud. Baner Bypass Highway serves as the main approach road for the bypass which in-turn connects to the Mumbai Pune Expressway. It enjoys excellent connectivity to Pune International Airport which is located at a driving distance of However, Khadki is the nearest railway station to Baner-Bypass Highway which is located at a distance of 6.

Pune is the major railway station from where one can get the train for interstate connectivity. As a result, it attracts IT professionals in large numbers and offers plenty of rental options. One side of the Balewadi Road is completely dark. Residents said it was hard to navigate the roads in the dark, especially during the rains. PUNE: Street lights on several stretches of Baner Road are on the blink, posing a danger bikers and cyclists, especially on dark, rainy nights.

The problem has spread to several upmarket locales in the Baner area, verified by a TOI visit on Saturday — hundreds of street lights are either missing entirely or lack light bulbs.

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Since his acquisition it became the county seat and he surveyed 30 acres 12 ha of the hamlet. He designated 2 acres 0. The jail was to be built behind the courthouse. McDearmon divided the remaining land surrounding the courthouse into 1-acre 0.

He felt that with Clover Hills' new status as a county seat he would find professional people ready and willing to purchase the lots. His hopes were later dashed in as the train depot stopped three miles 5 km west in Appomattox, Virginia.

The American Civil War put the nails in the coffin. The district once known as Clover Hill and later renamed to Appomattox Court House continued to decline as businesses moved to the area of the Appomattox Station. The village contained 30 acres 12 ha of the original Patteson's Clover Hill Tavern property of some acres 81 ha. According to a Union writer at the time of the American Civil War the village consisted of about "five houses, a tavern, and a courthouse — all on one street that was boarded up at one end to keep the cows out.

There were a large number of cabins and out-buildings. The hamlet had two stores, law offices, a saddler, wheelwright, three blacksmiths, and other businesses.

A tavern later had been built by John Raine in that became the celebrated McLean house. Many rural counties in the Southern States had county seats whose names were formed by adding court house two words to the name of the county, hence the village name became Appomattox Court House.

It presently has a couple of dozen restored buildings. There are also various ruins and cemeteries within the village. There are several markers throughout the field of the village that show points of interest within the Park. Some of these are the sites of General Lee's and General Grant's headquarters; the site of the apple tree where General Lee waited for General Grant's reply on the morning of April 9, ; the line of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 's brigade drawn up to receive the Confederate arms on April 12, ; and the position of the last cannon fired by the Confederate artillery on the morning of April 9, There is also a monument and two tablets that was erected by North Carolina state describing the last engagement of the armies this same morning.

General George Armstrong Custer of Little Bighorn fame received a flag of truce at the village of "Appomattox Court House" that brought about the discontinuance of hostilities of the Confederate and the Union armies leading to the surrender meeting between General Lee and General Grant at the McLean house.

The program for the development of the Park calls for a partial restoration of Clover Hill and the hamlet of Appomattox Court House to its appearance in April This will constitute for the people of the United States a memorial to the termination of the American Civil War.

World War II stopped temporarily the development of the Park, however it was resumed in Some structures in the village that were built after were taken down that did not represent a true picture of the end of the Civil War.

Also this would allow the National Park Service to do archeological exploration at the original Appomattox Court House building. Civil War Wiki Explore. Wiki Content.

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Find her website here. Pebblewood Urn. Find them here. Ann Bates makes ceramic urns which are artworks in their own right, and suitable for indoors or outdoors. She also makes bespoke pieces to order. Jemima Fisher is a textile artist who creates textile urns, all featuring a bird embellishment. Elysium is a stable of artists who make a range of bespoke, crafted memorial pieces — urns, candle-holders, glass bowls, garden sculpture.

Find out all about them here :. Again from the US, these artisan-made urns are good. Incorporate them with a garden sculpture. Mix them with clay or concrete and make something.

A builder had his made into paving slabs. Have them pressed into a vinyl record which will play your favourite music — here. Scatter them at sea. Do a deal with a charter boat. We like this one in Kent — here. Scatter them over the Thames from a riverboat — here. Have them turned into a diamond — here.

Have them made into a crystal windchime : — here. Have them mixed with glass and made into an ornament or pendant — here. Keep some in a locket or a pendant. Find a silversmith. Ed Headrick was an inventor who figured out how to improve the flying ability of an unknown disk toy, from which the Frisbee was born.

He left instructions that after his death, his ashes be mixed into the plastic and a batch of Frisbees manufactured for his friends and family. Ashes can now be compressed into a vinyl record, which holds a recording of your choosing.

Now they can become part of those reefs and spend eternity beneath the ocean water they loved so much. In addition, it becomes a habitat for many species of marine life, replacing the ones that have been damaged or destroyed. Was someone you know an avid hunter? What better way to memorialize him than with a box of ammunition containing a bit of his ashes.

What if you could wake up each morning and have your morning coffee as the sun along with your loved one shines through a beautiful stained glass window. You may find some of these unusual, but maybe the deceased was unique.

Most of these next urns reflect how he or she lived. Another one for those who loved the ocean. In a time capsule, they will rest on the ocean floor for eternity. How fitting would it be for a former military officer to be buried with his medals or a ball player with his glove. If they a biker, there are plenty of motorcycle related urns out there. How about a mechanic or someone good with their hands.

He most likely loved his toolbox and would be pleased to know his ashes can be contained in one. Fredric J. Baur, the inventor of Pringles Potato Chips, requested that his cremains be kept in a Pringles can. An Eco urn is typically used for burying cremated remains. They are constructed with organic materials, which easily breaks down in soil. Ecopod makes one that resembles a large acorn. You no longer need to worry about forgetting what they looked like over time.

This urn will remind you every day. The urn is created from picture and facial recognition software to look just like your loved one. A little creepy? Well, yes. A unique idea? Definitely yes. It an opportunity to design and create an individualistic representation of a loved one. Perfect if they were into hippies and shabby chic.

These beautiful urns are crafted with biodegradable materials in the shape of a seashell, which contain the cremains. It can be buried, but they are usually placed into a body of water where it floats for approximately five minutes or longer. It then begins to sink while gradually releasing the ashes. Pets like dogs or cats become part of the family, and so paying tribute to their life is important. There you have it, 40 examples of beautiful, funny, crazy, and even creepy things you can do with your ashes.

I love the idea of the reef memorial and I found this company on the west coast called Living Reef Memorial. It would have been helpful to have that information in your article. Thank you. Please could you let me know the cost of the wooden box with photo inside or where I could purchase from. May I suggest having a look at our wooden urns guide , which might have something to your liking. You might also wish to check out these urns on Amazon. This is more of a?

He passed away at age 42 just 4 years ago. I need to get his ashes to a final place before I pass away. Can anyone help me figure this out. Thank You. Where do you live? So, her remains now go to me. They let me ride on the footplate with a friend on one of the locos and I put the ashes on the fire.

I was able to blow the train whistle when it was done. I kept a few of the ashes back and had a special pot made by a wood turner. It was made from wood from the grounds of one of our special places. Recently lost a friend who loved to ride his motorcycle with his brothers.. I searched and searched for a st. Columbanus patron saint of motorcyclists , or even a st Christopher medal with a place for ashes so that his brothers could all have something to take with them when they rode.

Any idea where I can find something like this? It would really mean a lot to them. They were perfect and reasonably priced and fast delivery. Hope this helps you So sorry for your loss. They should have a larger size teddy like the size of a body pillow and have it so it could hold more remains.

I was surprised to read that cremation art is a popular way to memorialize your loved one. It makes sense that this would be popular because you can beautifully display this in your home. I am going to ask if he would rather be cremated or buried!

I recommend seeing if there is a burial society in your state that can help you with this rather than a funeral home.

I am searching the internet desperately to find a teddy bear cremains urn for my partner who just passed unexpectedly. Can anyone advise please. You could consider not putting all of the ashes in to just 1 item. When my Mom passed I bought small blue, her favorite color and spread the ashes into several bottles I decorated with rub on gold flowers.

I spread some of the ashes in her backyard. She passed in I am going to have some of her ashes made in to a ring! I get to choose the type of ring and the color of the stone! Sorry for your loss. I hope this helps a little. I spent years fighting wildland forest fires. I still cherish the memories, and thought how cool it would be to have my ashes mixed with a load of fire retardant and dropped by plane on a going wild fire. Similarly, the ashes or even hair of the deceased can be used to create memorial diamonds that are often known as synthetic, cultured or laboratory-grown diamonds.

This method is gaining popularity in the US, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, and various other countries as it is a unique and timeless way to memorialize a loved one. The process makes use of the carbon obtained from the cremated remains in a particulate or gaseous form.

Europe Bosnia marks anniversary of Mostar Bridge's demolition Memorial ceremony on historic bridge began with sirens ringing at exactly am Mustafa Talha Ozturk Please contact us for subscription options.

Turkey sends team to rescue national missing in heavy rain in Bosnia. Germany slams Serb leader's plans for Bosnia's dissolution. Senior lawmaker: Turkey stands by Bosnian brothers. Experience the diversity of Colombia, from the towns of Honda, Santa Marta and Cartagena to the coffee zone and the…. Mostar, on the banks of the mighty Neretva River, is the largest city in what is today Herzegovina.

The town grew in importance during centuries of Ottoman rule from to , when many beautiful and significant Islamic structures were built including the Kara Ozbegora Mosque below. The town is most famous for its bridge however, which was heralded as a classic example of Ottoman design and became a world-recognised symbol during the Bosnian war. The story goes that after a number of failed bridges, the Ottoman Sultan vowed to execute the engineer Mimar Hayruddin if his bridge collapsed too.

It would in fact stand for a further years, through Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule, as well as two world wars. The bridge, which connected Muslim communities in the east with Christian communities in the west, had come to symbolise the multi-ethnicity of Bosnia, so when it was destroyed by tank fire in during the bitter civil war, this was an incredibly sad moment for the locals.

After the war, the bridge was rebuilt, using many of the same limestone blocks that were salvaged from the river. The reconstructed Old Bridge and Old City of Mostar is a symbol of reconciliation, international co-operation and of the coexistence of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities. Today Mostar is well worth a visit. But during the conflict between Bosnian Muslims, Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs, the Old Bridge became one of the war's most famous casualties.

On November 9, , Croat artillery hit the bridge's weak spot from the nearby hills, and the historic icon collapsed, plunging into the river below. The symbol of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural diversity lay in ruins.

Though the end of the war was nowhere in sight, Pasic started to plan for the reconstruction of the bridge. Also an engineer and urban planner, Pasic had received international awards for his painstaking efforts to restore and rejuvenate Mostar's old town before the war. Now the old town had become the site of some of the war's most vicious fighting. Thousands were killed and injured, and nearly every building was destroyed.

Pasic decided to rebuild Mostar. To raise support for the rebuilding effort, he said, "You need a very strong symbol, and the bridge is the crown monument of Bosnia. At the time of the bridge's destruction, Pasic was living abroad, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then it had to be decided whether these stones could be reused or new blocks of this rare stone had to be obtained from the quarries -if that was possible at all.

With the help of an "impact echo" method, the recovered stones were checked on invisible damages and cracks. The new ashlars from the Tenelija quarry had to be analyzed and catalogued, too. Stone ashlars with iron clamps and pins recovered from the Neretva. Of course, the researchers wanted to know why the bridge had "bled" and they found it out: When the original flooring had been sealed, a pink mortar containing bauxite and a red brown alumina had been used.

When the bridge collapsed, this binding material was washed out and it coloured the water. Up to now, nowhere in the world a comparable pink mortar has been found.

However, not only the building material of Stari Most is interesting, but also its architecture, as has already been hinted at. The most amazing feature of the old monument was its design, which was far ahead of its time and which caused this incredible resistance against the missiles, but finally also its downfall: In contrast to other comparable monuments of this era, the Mostar bridge is hollow inside.

Nowadays this is the most common approach for reinforced concrete construction. As they had been inserted in exactly chiselled pockets and fixed with liquid lead, these connections survived even the incredible forces of bombing and downfall. Further clamps at the vertical joints provided even more safety. For the joints, which were arranged in a semi-circle, Hajrudin used iron, hand-forged pins as third reinforcement.

Following the curve of the arch, each pin had a different position, which was a great challenge to lead casting technology. In the laboratory, the LGA staff reconstructed even the sequence of the historic building of the bridge and built a small part of the bridge wall on a scale of Here they noticed how long it takes to make connections of this kind: in two steps, at first the clamp was fixed on one side of the next ashlar to be set and then the corresponding pockets were chiselled accurately into the previous stone.

Finally a straight channel as thick as a finger was scratched into the surface from the pocket to the ridge of the arch and polished properly. As soon as the stones were assembled, the craftsmen filled the chambers with liquid lead, thus fixing the clamp ends.

Or the disk may have started taking shape when the halo did, nearly 1 billion years ahead of schedule. To see which was more probable, he connected with Tobias Buck , a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany, who specializes in crafting digital galaxy simulations. Past efforts had generally produced halos first and disks second, as expected. But these were relatively low-resolution efforts.

In these digital simulations, a Milky Way—like galaxy forms and evolves over The leftmost column shows the distribution of invisible dark matter; the center column the temperature of gas where blue is cold and red is hot ; and the right column the density of stars.

Each row highlights a different size scale: The top row is a zoomed-in look at the galactic disk; the center column a mid-range view of the galactic halo; and the bottom row a zoomed-out view of the environment around the galaxy. Buck increased the crispness of his simulations by about a factor of At that resolution, each run demanded intensive computational resources.

He repeated the exercise six times. Two of those featured substantial numbers of metal-poor disk stars. How did those ancient stars get into the disk?

Simply put, they were stellar immigrants. Some of them were born in clouds that predated the Milky Way. Then the clouds just happened to deposit some of their stars into orbits that would eventually form part of the galactic disk. The results, which the group published in November , suggest that the classic galaxy formation models were incomplete.

Gas clouds do collapse into spherical halos, as expected. But stars arriving at just the right angles can kick-start a disk at the same time. With Gaia, astronomers have found direct evidence of cataclysmic collisions. Astronomers assumed that the Milky Way had a hectic youth, but Helmer Koppelman , an astronomer now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, used the Gaia data to help pinpoint specific debris from one of the largest mergers.

He processed the data on Thursday, and by Friday he knew he was on to something big. In every direction, he saw a huge number of halo stars ping-ponging back and forth in the center of the Milky Way in the same peculiar way — a clue that they had come from a single dwarf galaxy.

Beryllium is one of the lightest elements [2] - the nucleus of the most common and stable isotope Beryllium-9 consists of four protons and five neutrons. Only hydrogen, helium and lithium are lighter. But while those three were produced during the Big Bang, and while most of the heavier elements were produced later in the interior of stars, Beryllium-9 can only be produced by "cosmic spallation".

That is, by fragmentation of fast-moving heavier nuclei - originating in the mentioned supernovae explosions and referred to as energetic "galactic cosmic rays" - when they collide with light nuclei mostly protons and alpha particles, i. The galactic cosmic rays travelled all over the early Milky Way, guided by the cosmic magnetic field. The resulting production of Beryllium was quite uniform within the galaxy.

The amount of Beryllium increased with time and this is why it might act as a "cosmic clock". The longer the time that passed between the formation of the first stars or, more correctly, their quick demise in supernovae explosions and the formation of the globular cluster stars, the higher was the Beryllium content in the interstellar medium from which they were formed.

Thus, assuming that this Beryllium is preserved in the stellar atmosphere, the more Beryllium is found in such a star, the longer is the time interval between the formation of the first stars and of this star. The Beryllium may therefore provide us with unique and crucial information about the duration of the early stages of the Milky Way. So far, so good. The theoretical foundations for this dating method were developed during the past three decades and all what is needed is then to measure the Beryllium content in some globular cluster stars.

But this is not as simple as it sounds! The main problem is that Beryllium is destroyed at temperatures above a few million degrees. When a star evolves towards the luminous giant phase, violent motion convection sets in, the gas in the upper stellar atmosphere gets into contact with the hot interior gas in which all Beryllium has been destroyed and the initial Beryllium content in the stellar atmosphere is thus significantly diluted.

To use the Beryllium clock, it is therefore necessary to measure the content of this element in less massive, less evolved stars in the globular cluster. And these so-called "turn-off TO stars" are intrinsically faint. In fact, the technical problem to overcome is three-fold: First, all globular clusters are quite far away and as the stars to be measured are intrinsically faint, they appear quite faint in the sky.

Secondly, there are only two Beryllium signatures spectral lines visible in the stellar spectrum and as these old stars do contain comparatively little Beryllium, those lines are very weak, especially when compared to neighbouring spectral lines from other elements.

And third, the two Beryllium lines are situated in a little explored spectral region at wavelength nm, i. Astronomers think that this is how many larger galaxies have come to be the size they are today.

In fact, the Milky Way is currently gobbling up another galaxy , and a stellar cluster at this very moment. Called the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, the remnant stars are 45, light years from the galactic center, and a mere 25, light years from our Sun.

Younger stars in the galaxy are located in the disk, evidence that as it started to get heavier, the mutual orbit of material started the galaxy spinning, which resulted in the spiral one sees in representations of the Milky Way.

By comparing them, we can begin to understand how galaxies and their stars are born, how they change and how they die over time.

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Abstract Surgical treatment for angina pectoris was first proposed in Figure 1. Open in new tab Download slide. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Table 1 Incidence and predictors of early clinical outcomes after coronary artery bypass surgery, with a focus on perioperative considerations to prevent complications. Specific predictors. These are generally factors that are associated with how well the patient tolerates the procedure, the progression of disease, the procedural complexity, and the postoperative recovery.

Postoperative stroke has been found to increase the risk of day mortality by five- to six-fold. Other predictors are: urgency of procedure, recent MI, number of distal anastomoses, incomplete revascularization, longer cardiopulmonary bypass time. Operative graft flow measurement may identify grafts that need revision. Re-exploration for bleeding increases the risk of stroke, MI, pneumonia, and deep sternal wound infection, but also significantly increases the use of blood products and prolongs postoperative hospital stay by about 2 days.

Antifibrinolytic agents may reduce blood loss. The reduction in operative time should be weighed against increased rates of re-exploration. Delirium is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as prolonged hospital stay and increased hospitalization costs. A multicomponent intervention for the management of cognitive impairment, sleep deprivation, immobility, visual and hearing impairment, and dehydration reduces number and duration of delirium episodes.

Renal failure is a significant predictor of short- and long-term mortality, even in patients with preoperative normal renal functions.

Easy preventive strategies consist of: preoperative hydration, prevention and correction of hypotension, abandon the use of nephrotoxic drugs, and use of nonionic contrast during angiography. Postoperative sternal wound infections increase the postoperative process, stay are associated with incremental costs, and lead to a drastic increase in early or delayed mortality. Prevention of mediastinitis through preoperative antiseptic showers, hair removal, and administration of perioperative antibiotics has been instated.

Limiting the need for re-exploration for bleeding will furthermore reduce its rate. Often of transient nature due to early postoperative inflammatory responses and oxidative stress that are reduced over subsequent days post-surgery. Atrial fibrillation is a predictor of stroke and was found to significantly reduce long-term survival in a number of studies.

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Jim Marshall would produce the biggest and baddest amplifier yet to meet these demands. The Marshall amp was watts, which was a big jump in power. It would also use four speakers. The power of this amplifier would finally give guitarists what they wanted since the beginning; big, powerful sound. Your email address will not be published. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Later on during the same year, the triode, a device with the capability of adjusting the movement of electrons from a filament to a plate and thus modulating sound, was invented.

It was vital in the invention of the first AM radio. After World War II, there was a surging of technology because of the advancements developed during the war. The earliest kinds of audio amplifiers were made of vacuum tubes or valves. An example of these is the Williamson amplifier, which was introduced in At the time, this particular device was considered cutting edge and produced higher quality sound compared to other amplifiers available at the time.

The market for sound amplifiers was robust and the valve-type devices can be owned at affordable rates. By the s, gramophones and televisions made valve amplifiers quite popular. By the s, valve technology was replaced by the silicon transistor. Although valves were not completely wiped out as evidenced by the popularity of the cathode ray tubes, which was used for amplifier applications, silicon transistors became more and more present. Transistors amplify sound by changing the voltage of the audio input through the use of semiconductors.

The reasons for the preference of transistors over valves were that they were smaller and thus more energy-efficient. In this article, we'll see what amplifiers do and how they do it. Amplifiers can be very complex devices, with hundreds of tiny pieces, but you can get a clear picture of how an amplifier works by examining the most basic components.

In this next section, we'll look at the basic elements of amplifiers. In the last section, we saw that an amplifier's job is to take a weak audio signal and boost it to generate a signal that is powerful enough to drive a speaker. This is an accurate description when you consider the amplifier as a whole, but the process inside the amplifier is a little more complex.

In actuality, the amplifier generates a completely new output signal based on the input signal. You can understand these signals as two separate circuits. The output circuit is generated by the amplifier's power supply , which draws energy from a battery or power outlet.

If the amplifier is powered by household alternating current , where the flow of charge changes directions, the power supply will convert it into direct current , where the charge always flows in the same direction. The power supply also smoothes out the current to generate an absolutely even, uninterrupted signal.

The output circuit's load the work it does is moving the speaker cone. The input circuit is the electrical audio signal recorded on tape or running in from a microphone. Its load is modifying the output circuit. It applies a varying resistance to the output circuit to re-create the voltage fluctuations of the original audio signal. In most amplifiers, this load is too much work for the original audio signal. For this reason, the signal is first boosted by a pre-amplifier , which sends a stronger output signal to the power amplifier.

The pre-amplifier works the same basic way as the amplifier: The input circuit applies varying resistance to an output circuit generated by the power supply.

Some amplifier systems use several pre-amplifiers to gradually build up to a high-voltage output signal. So how does the amplifier do this?

If you look inside an amplifier for an answer, you'll only find a complex mass of wires and circuitry components. The amplifier needs this elaborate setup to make sure each part of the audio signal is represented correctly and accurately.

Hi-fidelity output requires very precise control. All of the pieces in an amplifier are important, but you certainly don't need to examine each one to understand how an amplifier works. There are only a few elements that are crucial to the amplifier's functioning.

In the next section, we'll see how these elements come together in a very basic amplifier design. The component at the heart of most amplifiers is the transistor. The main elements in a transistor are semiconductors , materials with varying ability to conduct electric current. The names of the early builders have been forgotten, as many were likely simple one-off builds.

The first electric guitar amplifier was likely made by Leo Fender and was a modified valve-based public address amplifier. Fender's early guitar amplifiers had no controls and simply amplified the electric signal produced by early magnetic pickups. Although early prototypes exist, the first commercially produced guitar amplifier was made by Fender in Early guitar amplifiers were used primarily by pedal steel guitar players in Hawaii.

Yes, St. Christopher is still a saint. Tradition holds that he died at Lycia on the southern coast of Asia Minor about the year Various legends surround his life. The most popular is that he was a rather ugly, giant man, born to a heathen king who was married to a Christian, who had prayed to the Blessed Mother for a child.

Again according to legend, one day one of his passengers to cross the river was a small child. As they proceeded, the child kept growing heavier, and Christopher feared that they would drown. Into the sacred trash can! Many of the saints revered during the era of the Knights Templar 12th and 13th centuries were removed from the liturgical calendar in the sweeping reforms of the Catholic Church in the s.

Up to 93 saints were no longer to have their own saints days. Like many of the great medieval saints, he had been martyred under one of the later Roman emperors. In this case, different accounts of his life indicate he died either under the Emperor Decius or the Emperor Maximinus Daia.

The alternative versions of his life smack of later concoctions and additions but basically he went on a quest to find Jesus Christ during which he was tasked with helping people to cross a river — by carrying them. One of those he carried was a child who was extremely heavy and the river was treacherous that day.

Christopher got to the other side and remarked on how heavy the child had been. He then revealed that he was Christ and upon his shoulders was the world. Then the child disappeared. Unsurprisingly, Christopher became the patron saint of travellers. Saint Ursula was another saint taken off the calendar. She was betrothed to be married to Conan Meriadoc, the pagan governor of Armorica — modern day Brittany. Then the accounts from various sources get massively mixed up.

Some say she was blown off course, went to see the Pope in Rome, helped fight off the Huns who were besieging the Roman city of Cologne and may have eventually ended up marrying a now Christian Conan. A less happy version has her boat blown off course, ending up in Germany where she and her virgins were killed by the Huns. Amusingly, the number of virgins over the centuries increased from eleven to eleven thousand! And even as high as 70,!!

Still, even if the story sounds totally far fetched, it inspired the founding of the Ursuline order of nuns and Christopher Columbus named a group of islands in the Caribbean after this saint and her followers — the Virgin Islands.

Another saint to get chopped was Saint Philomena. Again martyred in the late Roman Empire. According to some church related sources , she was never a saint and the Vatican was merely clarifying the situation in the s. Those who defend de-listing this martyr saint, point out there is no literary or archaeological evidence to prove her existence as a person let alone a saint.

Her veneration took off pretty quickly and spread all over Italy and France. The problem was that this cult had never received official papal approval. So she came off the books! Saint Nicholas, the model for Santa Claus, also got the boot. Yo ho ho? What It Takes to Become a Saint. Legend had it he carried a child who grew increasingly heavy across a river -- the child was supposed to be carrying the weight of God. Saint Ursula suffered a similar fate when the Catholic Church decided she was only a myth.

She is thought to have been the leader of a group of virgins who were murdered at Cologne. Saint George is remembered as a brave martyr -- often depicted as a hero slaying a dragon in paintings.